Aave News: Fresh Grantees, Cross-chain Bridge, Real World Asset Market, and More

A recap of the Aave ecosystem, August 23rd to August 29th, 2021

Aug 30, 2021

Welcome to Aave News 👻 Your weekly recap of the Aave ecosystem

Keep reading for coverage on: Aave Grants DAO update 🏗 , State of the protocol 📰 , Ecosystem 🧉 , Governance ⚖️ , Request for comments 🗣, New market watch 💹 , Mark your calendar 📆 , and Water cooler 🆒

Aave Grants DAO update 🏗

Fresh grantees. Yesterday we announced the latest round of Aave Grants recipients. Congratulations to all the teams - we cannot wait to use what you build.

2001: Aave DeFi app | @2001eth

Web 3.0 mobile app for Aave protocol in React Native for Android and iOS. Potentially the first DeFi product fully decentralized both on the protocol and the app layers.

DAO Jobs Board | @derek_hsue

Creating a DAO jobs board which will be a one-stop landing page to find DAO contribution opportunities for anyone regardless of skill set - engineering, design, research, marketing, community management, and more.

Ecosystem Reserve Token Streaming Integration | @smsunarto

Integrating the ecosystem reserve to Sablier and/or Superfluid for easy streaming of tokens to contributors.

Delegate.fi | Petrovska Petr

Using credit delegation from Aave to maximize returns to users who have idle borrowable power using harvesting and debt derivatives.

BEN Aave Meta-Delegate | @BlockchainEdu

An initiative to enable students from any and all universities to participate in Aave governance.

Li.Finance | Zenk Team

Developing a mesh of cross-chain liquidity networks and protocols to power next-gen DeFi projects with superior UX by making liquidity accessible when needed

NFT Collateral Agreements | @keyko_io

Integrate Nevermined and Aave to allow users to collateralize their loans using NFT by creating OTC agreements.

Sacred Finance | @SacredFinance_

Using AAVE as a lending and borrowing platform to bring privacy to DeFi.

Projecteuanthe | 0xNovachrono

Creating Elara, a privacy framework allowing users to anonymously and confidentially interact with Aave contracts for loans or deposits and claim rewards if applicable.

Solace | @SolaceFi

For further development of Solace, a decentralized coverage protocol and insurance-alternative, that allows DeFi liquidity providers and market makers to hedge their risk in the event of smart contract exploits.

Community Call. Who do you want to hear from during the next community call? Have your say on who should be featured.

AMA with Centrifuge. Big thank you to @_schmitted, @Offerijns, @thedoctor_j, and @lucasvo from @Centrifuge for answering questions from the Aave community during an AMA last Thursday. The focus was on their recent proposal to add a real world asset market to Aave.

State of the protocol 📰

Cross-chain bridge. The cross-chain governance bridges that were originally unveiled by @lemiscate at EthCC are officially here 🥳 An AIP to test out the functionality on Polygon has been queued.

Ξmilio Frangella @The3D_

Today @AaveAave reached a major milestone towards full decentralization: - The UI is now completely opensource - Crosschain bridges will facilitate governance on different sidechains and rollups A thread ⬇️

Aave @AaveAave

As the Ethereum community expands and scales into a multichain future, new tools will facilitate continued community governance and growth of community-led ecosystems. Introducing Governance cross-chain bridges. ⛓ 🌉 🛠 👻 https://t.co/dgoYy3RFwh

Liquidity mining. The new incentives program is live and now includes rewards for $LINK, $MKR, $xSUSHI, $YFI, $BAL, $RAI and $PAX. However, as @The3D_ explains, a key piece of the configuration is missing so rewards for the newly added assets are not actually being distributed. Expect a new proposal soon to fix the situation.

Metrics to explore.

Protocol performance metrics from @A_BertoG - recent thread
Growth metrics including usage, volume, economics, segment behaviour, and staking info from @OmniAnalytics
Voting and governance metrics from @Boardroom_info
Treasury analytics dashboard from @llamacommunity_

Ecosystem 🧉

Flipside bounties. Dig into three new Aave bounties from Flipside and see what is possible with @0xTableau’s dashboard.

Save for the holidays. Two new pools launched on GoodsGhosting last week. There is a 50 DAI/month pool, a 200 DAI/month pool, and an accompanying NFT. At the time of writing, each pool had spots remaining for savers to join!